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us/Cutting Nukes First: The Economic Burden of Nuclear Weapons
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As I write this, US leaders have just two weeks to make a deal on how to cut the deficit to prevent the nation defaulting on their debt commitments.President Obama said that, in terms of budget cut...
us/Nine Days to Save the Great Bear and a Ban on Trophy Hunting
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The Great Bear Rainforest has been in the news a lot over the last couple of months. First off, the BC government is coming down to the wire on following through on its promise to protect the regio...
us/IKEA Touts Its Green Ways
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Dabbler.ca writes about a new Canadian IKEA website, TheIKEAWay.ca. It's a website espousing and discussing about IKEA's environmental and CSR practices. From the site: The IKEA Way is our promise...
us/Mowing Down Pollution
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The folks at the Clean Air Foundation recently announced this year's version of Mow Down Pollution. It's a campaign, started in 2001, that encourages Canadians to turn in their old and busted lawn ...
us/Only Five Days Left in Our Photo Contest
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Just a quick note to encourage any late entries in our Greenest Photo Ever contest . We've been overwhelmed with the responses, as there are now 284 photos submitted. Act fast, and I'm afraid you'v...
us/We Won a WebAward
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Just a quick post to say that we recently received an “Advocacy Standard of Excellence” award from the good folks at WebAwards. We're not exactly sure what that means, but we're always pleased to r...
us/152 Photos and Counting For Our Photo Contest
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Just a quick note to say that our Greenest Photo Ever contest on Flickr has taken off and exceeded our expectations. We're less than a week in, and we've already got over 150 photos submitted. If ...
us/Pick Your Favourite of The Greenest Photos Ever
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We received over 350 entries and we’ve narrowed them down to six finalists, based on the number of ‘favourites’ the photos received in Flickr last month. Take a few seconds and vote for the one you...
us/Check Out Our New Widget
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We recently developed another way for you to get news from DeSmogBlog. It's a widget (or, if you're on Windows Vista, a gadget). What's a widget? In a nutshell, it's a little program that sits on y...
us/A Big Thank You To Our Operation DeSmog USA Donors
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Just a quick post to say a heartfelt thanks to everybody who has donated to our fundraising campaign. We've already raised $1425! We're well on our well to achieving our goal of raising $10,000 to ...
us/Help Us Launch Operation DeSmog USA
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The more sharp-eyed among you may have noticed a new item in DeSmogBlog's sidebar. It's our big donation button!There is no doubt that we have caught the attention of US think tanks and well-known ...
us/Join Our Facebook Group
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As a zillion mainstream media articles will tell you, everybody's agog about Facebook. If you're not on it, you've probably been barraged with invitations from friends and colleagues who have made ...
us/We're Progressive Bloggers
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Just a quick note to say that we're proud to have joined the ranks of Progressive Bloggers . From the PB wiki : Progressive Bloggers is a group of Canadian bloggers who firmly believe that this ...
us/We've Caught the Twitter Virus
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One of my jobs here at DeSmogBlog is to keep an eye on emerging Web technologies and models and see if there are applications for this site. One of the newest such applications is Twitter. There's ...
us/IT Companies are Going Green
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Over the past few weeks I've coincidentally encountered no less than four projects to make software and IT companies greener: Via Jeremy Zawodny, I read about Yahoo's new initiative to become carb...
us/How Can We Be Better?
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We're pausing on this sunny (at least in Vancouver) Monday to ask you an important question: how could we improve DeSmogBlog? Whether you're a veteran reader with tons of comments, or a new visitor...
us/Green Sheets: We're Not All Doom and Gloom
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You know, there's more to global warming than debunking sceptics. The goal of this site is to “clear the PR pollution”, but there's always time and space to talk about solutions, too. That's why we...
us/Because We Didn't Get an Oscar: Play Stars and Stinkers
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Global warming is serious business, and this site has some pretty no-nonsense goals. There is, however, something to be said for having a little fun (and poking a little fun) every once in a while....
us/Congrats to This Month's DeSmog Detective
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Congratulations are in order for ErinC35 (that's, you know, her top secret code name) from Lasalle, Quebec. She's won a $50 iTunes gift certificate for sending us some breaking news about the activ...
us/Our Resource Page for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Next month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be releasing their Fourth Assessment Report, the latest in a series of authoritative climate change reports produced over the ...

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